LAS CRUCES – Johana Bencomo, the Las Cruces city councilor in District 4, attempted to persuade her colleagues during a Monday council meeting to support a basic income program as a potential solution to the city’s poverty.
Guaranteed basic income refers to a policy under which qualifying citizens receive direct cash payments periodically, without a work requirement and without conditions on how the money could be spent.
It’s narrower than a universal basic income (UBI), which typically does not set income requirements for the payments, thereby doling them out to every citizen or resident of an area.UBI perhaps gained the most […]
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